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European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach should stay and answer questions.

Written Answers — Banking Regulation: Banking Regulation (1 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Finance the action he is taking, or requesting the Financial Regulator to take with respect to the high rates being charged by Permanent TSB on their variable rate mortgages. [5653/12]

Written Answers — State Banking Sector: State Banking Sector (1 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he is unwilling or unable to name the unsecured unguaranteed bondholders at Anglo Irish Bank who are due to be paid in 2013. [5654/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (1 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 137: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he intends to take to end the pay, pension and abatement arrangements for current county managers. [3795/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (1 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality, following his statement in December 2011 that he intends to introduce a system of attachment orders allowing money to be taken from wages or social welfare payments to facilitate the payment of the debt or fines over time as an alternative to imprisonment for persons who refuse to pay fines, and that work was underway with a view to...

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I raise the issue of exceptional needs payments, which I understand the Minister for Social Protection is proposing to cut as part of her continuing crusade against families on low incomes. The exceptional needs payment is, by definition, made to families with exceptional needs. Last year, almost 250,000 payments were made under this scheme. Throughout the Government's programme of...

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Tánaiste explained the issue in terms of changing the guidelines when the Government is introducing cutbacks. Increasingly, these payments are availed of not only by individuals and families on social welfare, but also the working poor and families who are finding it difficult to keep the ship afloat. Regardless of the Tánaiste's views of communion, confirmation or any other religious...

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and a Government that proposes to take €8.5 million out of the pockets-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----and off the backs of poor people.

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can I take it that the crusade of the Government and more astonishingly the Labour Party against people on low incomes-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----is gathering pace? I want the Government to reverse that decision and inform the House-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----that it will not punish-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----individuals and families who are only barely hanging on. I suggest to the Tánaiste that the people who put him in that seat opposite me-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: -----expect him to do likewise.

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: There was a cut to the contributory pension.

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Government has punished the single parents.

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: It is a cutback.

Order of Business (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to ask the Tánaiste about the children first Bill, especially in respect of the failure of the Garda Inspectorate and its record keeping of sexual offences against children. It was unclear to me whether Deputy Ó Cuív was referring to the legislation for the referendum or this legislation. I realise the Government is committed to introducing this legislation and the Minister,...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 51: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that will be built in the next three years. [5914/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (2 Feb 2012)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 48: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to tackle the high pay, pension and abatement arrangements for city and county managers. [5900/12]